Poultry-brooder.



Witnm No. 850,725. PATENTED APR 16,1907.

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POULTRY .BROODER. AFN-NATION FILED SEPT.22,1906.

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APPLICATION TILED SEPT. 23.1908.

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UNITED STA'LE S PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD E. BILLINGS, OF BAY CITY, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-EIGHTH TO JOHN PARKER, BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

POULTRY-BROODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed $eptember 22, 1906. Serial No. 335,798.

To all whom, it may concern.-

residing at Bay City, in the county of Bay and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Brooders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to poultry-brooders; and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide a radiating chamber of circular formation to obviate cold corners, in which the weaker chicks are usually crowded by the stronger ones, and to permit the heat to uniformly circulate and distribute throughout the brooder.

It is a fact well known to poultry-raisers that a radiating chamber having square corners or angular spaces is objectionable,

for the reason that said corners or angular,

spaces are colder than the central portion of the radiating chamber and that a substantially circular radiating chamber may be uniformly heated from. the central portion to the outer wall thereof. In constructing my brooder I have taken advantage of this well-known fact and have provided a circular radiating chamber and nursery for young chicks, whereby the weaker ones will have an equal chance with the others to keep warm in moving about in the nursery.

Another object of my invention is to provide an exercising chamber or compartment connected to the nursery, so that the young chicks may pass from the nursery into the exercising-chamber at will.

Still another object of my invention is to provide means for covering and uncovering the radiating chamber or nursery and the exercising-chamber to admit sunlight and heat in clear weather.

The foregoing and other objects may be attained. by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a poultrybrooder made in accordance with my inven tion. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the covers of the nursery and exercising-chamber open. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal central section of the brooder. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on the line 4 4,

Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar view on the line 5 5, Fig. 3, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

n Referring to the drawings for a more par" ticular description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates a circular casing which may be made of wood or metal. In the lower portion of the casing 1 is a heatingchamber 2, designed to contain a lamp or other heating device and provided with a door 3, through which the lamp may be passed and removed, said chamber having a series of apertures or perforations 4 for admitting air to support the flame of the burner. Immediately above the chamber 2 is a partition 5. Above the partition 5 is a floor 7, and the space between the partition 5 and the floor 7 serves as a fresh-air chamber provided with air-inlets 8, through which air is drawn and passed up through a flue 9 in the floor 7 to be circulated and distributed within the nursery-chamber 10. It is to be noted that the chamber 10 is circular in form, or partially so, and is devoid of angular corners or spaces. At the top of the chamber 10 is a woven-wire screen 11, connected to a wire binding 12, the ends of which are bent outwardly, as at 13, to provide a hinge for said screen, the free edge of which rests upon a bracket 14, secured to the inner wall of the casing 1. Suitable windows or sightopenings are provided in the side walls of the nursery-chamber 10, and in order that the foul airmay escape at the top of the chamber 10 a series of small perforations 16 are provided. A cover 17 is hinged at 18 to the top of the nursery-chamber 10, and this cover may be partially or wholly opened to regulate the heat in the nursery-chamber. I may, however, utilize any of the well-known heat-regulators for said chamber, if de sired. Extended laterally from the casing 1 is a rectangular compartment 19, supported upon legs 20 at the outer corners thereof. Within this compartment is provided an exercising-chamber 22, provided with a hinged cover 23 and a wire-screen top 24, hinged at 25, to permit the same to be raised for giving access to the exercisingchamber, the outer end of said screen being supported upon a bracket 26. Suitable windows 27 are provided in the exercisingchamber. Suspended from a stationary strip 28, secured at the top of the brooder between the nursery-chamber and the exercising-chamber, is a fabric curtain 29, which may be composed of wicking, strips of felt, or other heat-insulating material, through which the chicks may readily pass from one chamber to the other. A door 30 is rovided at the outer end of the exercismgchamber to permit the chicks to pass out of the eXercising-chamb er whenever it is deemed expedient to permit them such liberty.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that the heat in passing through the flue 9 into the nursery-chamber 1.0 heats all parts of said chamber equally. The exercising-chamber 22 receives its heat through the curtain 29 and is warmed to a degree sufficient for the chicks as they grow stronger. The covers 17 and 23 may be raised when the sun is shining to give the chicks an airing, the screens, however, serving to keep them within the chamber.

My brooder can be manufactured at slight a chamber separated from the nursery-chamber by said heat insulating curtain, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD E. BILLINGS.

Witnesses:

JNo. C. HAINS, LIZZETTA J. HARRIS. 

